Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2017

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Giphy CEO: We Own Happy Birthday On Google. Next Day They Get Hit A Fast Company story on October 3rd profiling Giphy, the popular GIF search engine, ended off with the cofounder and CEO of Giphy, Alex Chung saying “Yeah, we own happy birthday now [on Google]… Google: Strongly Encourages Paywalled Content Markup With Flexible Sampling A couple weeks ago, we reported how Google has done away with the first click free program and introduced something called flexible sampling. If this is new to you… Google Is Hiring Webmaster Trends Analysts, Like John & Gary Google is looking to hire more Webmaster Trends Analysts to help out with communication between Google and webmasters, amongst other tasks. Google’s John Mueller announced it in a webmaster hangout at the 67:52 mark… Google Logo For Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Scientist & Skier Today on Google’s home page in many countries is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Fridtjof Nansen. Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate… Danny Sullivan As A Noogler, New Googler As you know, yesterday was Danny Sullivan’s first day working for Google and here he is in front of the Noogler Android Statue. A Noogler is a new Googler. They normally where these caps with perpell Other Great Search Forum Threads: Google…